Christiaan Olwagen

Poppie Nongena

Based on a true story: South Africa, mid 70s. When her husband becomes too ill to work, Poppie is deemed by the law to be an illegal resident in her own country. Based on the Elsa Joubert novel regarded as one of the best African novels of the century.

Release Date2020-01-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count11

Recipes for Love and Murder

Tannie Maria sees food as "medicine for the body and heart". She envies romance as much as she enjoys cooking and eating. But it's death that shakes up Tannie Maria's life, when one of the correspondents to her column is brutally murdered.

Release Date2022-03-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count12

Die Seemeeu

Christiaan Olwagen (Johnny is nie Dood nie, Kanarie) adapts Anton Chekhov's classic play, The Seagull, to film, and places it in South Africa in the 1990’s, almost one hundred years after it was written.

Release Date2019-04-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Canary

Kanarie (Afrikaans for 'Canary') is a coming-of-age musical war drama. Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young soldier joins the military's traveling choir, and romance on the battlefield causes him to deal with his long-repressed sexual identity through hardship, camaraderie, first love, and the liberating freedom of music, the true self can be discovered.

Release Date2018-08-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count20

Koek

When Cape Town housewife discovers evidence her husband is having an affair with a stripper, her investigation takes her to a world poles apart from the suburban utopia she knows.

Release Date2024-02-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count10

Vote Count3

A Kind of Madness

A 70-year old man abducts his dementia-suffering wife from her retirement home and goes on the run from both the police and his adult children.

Release Date2025-04-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Johnny is not Dead

A look into the tumultuous life of Johannes Kerkorrel and the Voëlvry movement during Apartheid South-Africa

Release Date2016-08-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4